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There wasn't much of a plot to the play, and what there was was kinda filthy for the Hays Office, but that never fazes Paramount for a minute, no siree. They've got Hope, so why worry about the plot...
...Hollywood, Raffles has met Walt Disney, Charlie McCarthy, David Selznick, many other bigwigs. Elsa Maxwell gave a party for the bird. Paramount signed Raffles up for eight weeks at $3,500 to play opposite Dorothy Lamour in her forthcoming Rainbow Island. Qn the lot Raffles' dressing room, complete with nameplate, is next to Dorothy...
True To Life (Paramount) is not true enough to be tearful, not false enough to be flat. It is a pleasant, rather cynical comedy in which Franchot Tone, Dick Powell and Mary Martin arrange an Anschluss between the never-never-land of radio and the hardly-ever-land of a "genuine" grey-collar family, Borough of Queens...
Hostages (Paramount) should have an irresistible appeal to devotees of dynamite, sudden death and Luise Rainer. The picture, a tortuous melodrama about the Czech underground, brings Cinemactress Rainer back to the screen after a five-year absence. It also notably advances the talents of prognathous William Bendix...
...City That Stopped Hitler-Heroic Stalingrad (Central Newsreel Studios-Paramount), first Soviet film to be distributed by a major U.S. company, has been called the "mightiest war film ever" (by Manhattan's PM). It has also been called "objectionable in part" (by the Legion of Decency). Reason: the picture "tends to incite hatred of the persons of enemies and to be excessively gruesome." Stalingrad is not by a long shot the mightiest war film ever-Desert Victory (TIME, April 12), for one, was better. Neither can the Legion's objections be entirely brushed off. Nevertheless, the 24 Russian...